The death of this popular Tejano singer left many questions, but
\nthe one I’m most interested is: could she have done it? Could she
\nhave cut up the non-Latin charts without the wide-spread publicity
\nof her death? It’s easy to say
\nDreaming Of You<\/i> was a fluke just as it’s easy to say it was
\ninevitable.<\/p>\n
There are some obvious signs of superstardom; an original song
\nwritten by Diane Warren (not one of Warren’s more lyrical ones,
\nhowever), the inevitable showcase ballads and of course the most
\nobvious one: Trey Lorenz in the background of the first track. “I
\nCould Fall In Love” is pop with a refreshing Tejano lacing, proving
\nAmy Tan’s words that “it’s hip to be ethnic.”<\/p>\n
All of the English tracks are ballads either classic or
\nmidtempo, which again promotes monotony. A surprising and painful
\nflaw at the end of “Captive Heart” shows that she is making a
\nmistake many popular singers today are making; exerting too much
\nthroat is a one-way ticket to voice destruction. The flaw is never
\nheard again, but an uncertainty lingers in the listener’s mind.<\/p>\n
Once you get over the English tracks, the Spanish tracks begin.
\nHalf of the songs have her singing in Spanish and many of them were
\nwritten-produced by her father\/manager which kills a lot of
\ndiversity and makes the sound wear out quicker, but not without
\nmaking some statements first.<\/p>\n
“Amor Prohibido” is a seamless track and reading the lyrics,
\nmakes me wonder about her father; they go something like “who cares
\nwhat your mom and dad will say \/ here the only thing that matters
\nis our love”. It shows that Mr. Quintanilla is a professional,
\nalbeit over-influential.<\/p>\n
The most impressive track on the entire album is “El Toro
\nRelajo”, which switches conventional man-woman roles and has Selena
\nsinging as a toreador (wait; isn’t that a type of vampire? Just in
\ncase, I mean “toreador” as in bull-tamer). “Look out, here comes a
\ncrazy bull \/ he is crazy \/ hide behind the fence, my love \/ he is
\ncoming fast”. The track is short, amusing, and dedicated.<\/p>\n
Due to a shameful lack of knowledge of Tejano terminology, I
\nshall call the more upbeat tracks “dance tracks.” A track that
\nutilizes the rythmic nature of Spanish, namely “Techno Cumbia” is a
\nlittle underproduced in a bad way but Selena compensates the lack
\nof background beautifully. The other dance tracks share this
\nunderproduced quality but even Selena’s fill-in technique could
\nonly be used once.<\/p>\n
Despite the bilingual material,
\nDreaming Of You<\/i> has a problem with coherence (too much of
\nit) and although Selena does her best with the material she has,
\nshe needed to hook up with a producer who can bring her ambiguity
\nto full potential. Such producers are rare, true, but such
\nproducers are a prerequisite for divadom and it has been done
\nbefore. The sad thing, however, is that the point is null; and one
\ncan only wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5788],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-35679","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-selena","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35679"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35679"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}